C Van Der Walt

Biography

Christa van der Walt is professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her area of specialisation is in the use of English as a language of learning and teaching in multilingual contexts, at school and at tertiary level. Her postgraduate students focus their projects on English language teaching, academic literacy development and curriculum change within multilingual contexts. She received the prestigious Von Humboldt fellowship and is editor of the academic journal Per Linguam.

Research Interest

She is an NRF-rated researcher and sole author of a book Multilingual Higher Education: Beyond English-medium Orientations, published in 2013 by Multilingual Matters. Her latest book publications are Multilingual Universities in South Africa (2014, co-edited with Liesel Hibbert) and Academic Biliteracies: Multilingual Repertoires in Higher Education (2017, co-edited with David Palfreyman), both published by Multilingual Matters.​